Show congress sets nati employ the Physic physically physicals all y handicapped week p congress has set aside the first full week in october each year as national employ tile the physically handicapped week this wik week Is designed to spotlight the benefits to industry and to the civic body as a whole of employing the physically handicapped in tile the job they can pie torm employ the physically handicapped its good business Is tile the slogan tor for this year A surey aey of firms films by the depart ment of labor proved that impaired workers equalled equal led the efficiency fi fici ency of the non handicapped in 82 per cent of the cases and were superior in eight per cent it should be understood dundei stood that an employee Is not handicapped when placed in a job carefully appraised to make use of his ability fit the job to his ability rather than to his disability every agency private and public needs help from industry Ind to place physically impaired workers in jobs for which they are qualified that help must come from each community all employers are urged to list their job openings with t the h e D employment service and all handicapped are urged to register for work through this we may further the drive to gainfully employ the impaired |